The Dog - Hardcover

Kerstin Ekman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847441718 ISBN 13: 9781847441713

Publisher: Sphere H/B Tpb, 2009

Synopsis

In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the safe haven of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle for survival in the wild. Suddenly, he must find food and a safe place to sleep, and outwit his competitor, the fox. The puppy becomes wild himself, trusting no human and furiously fighting the hunting dogs that enter his domain.
But one man is intrigued by the now-unruly dog and very slowly begins to gain his trust. Each day he visits the dog, bringing food and awakening memories of his distant domestic past. The lost relationship between man and dog is rebuilt in this sensitive and intelligent story about the true nature of trust and friendship.

About this title

About the Author:

Kirsten Ekman is Sweden's most prominent female fiction writer, with many novels to her name, and winner of many literary awards, including the Great Prize for Fiction (1977), the August Prize (1993), the Nordic Council Prize (1994), the Pilot Prize (1995).

Review:

"Wonderful . . . powerfully enigmatic . . . extremely intelligent . . . works so brilliantly both as a mystery and an evocation of an unfamiliar world."  —New York Times on Blackwater


"Graham Greene meets Dean Koontz."  —Entertainment Weekly on Blackwater

"Mesmerizing . . . like Smilla's Sense of Snow, it is beautifully written, absorbing, and accessible. It makes you hold your breath."  —Newsday on Blackwater

"The kind of long, lush, thoughtful page-turner many of us crave but rarely get our hands on."  —New York Times Book Review on Blackwater

"this beautifully written novel is brilliantly evocative and...evokes an atmosphere with a different tempo, where instinct and affinity with nature take over"—Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere H/B Tpb
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847441718
• ISBN 13: 9781847441713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160